Well here I am and after the over night bus have finally arrived in Puno on the edge of Lake Titicaca. This is probably the bit I have been most looking forward to on the whole of my trip seeing this lake, the highest in the world and also Uros the famous reed islands.Well today I have spent the day with Cecelia (travelling buddy) travelling around in little buggies powered by a little man behind you on a push bike going from market to market in looking for cheap...

Chivay and colca canyon

Arequipa is the second most important city after Lima it has a more colonial style as is far more laid back than Lima. this was the first place that we started to notice the altitude but at only 2325 m (7626ft) above sea level it wasnt that high up at all.Arequipa is surrounded by snow capped Andes and unlike Lima (when I was there anyway) has bright blue skies, but the air was cold and had very strong sun. This was the first place I noticed the altitude starting...

This afternoon, we headed over to Nasca (at this stage most of us including myself had "Peruvian belly" aka chronic food poisoning ) but that wasn´t going to dampen our spirits to see the famous Nasca lines. We all headed towards the local airfield to see these famous lines made in the ground over 500 years ago. No one knows exactly why these lines were put there, were they a symbol to the gods? were they put there to attract aliens?? or was someo...

sanbaording down the sandunes!!